Algaecraft Mod 1.6.2/1.5.2

AlgaeCraft adds a large variety of new blocks, items, foods, and things to do into Minecraft.

The creator of this mod is Azaka7. This mod was suggested by Harmsway.

As of 1.4 versions, AlgaeCraft’s texture artist is NethanielShade.

Huge thanks to JoshuaDahlberg for the Lobster Model and Texture!

Most Important information is underlined for quick reading

Algae:

Algae naturally generates in Swamp biomes. It usually spawns in clumps of 4-5 with several clumps per chunk. Algae will grow on water and ONLY in Swamp biomes to prevent it from overrunning an ocean. Algae grown very rapidly. It will slow down any entity to 4/5 its speed, so it becomes an easy annoyance when swimming in swamps. Algae can be harvested just by hitting it. The algae can be used to create sticky pistons or can be cooked. Algae is cooked in a furnace to produce Algae Chips. These chips give 2 hunger (or 1 full ?chicken nugget?), a 0.3 saturation, and have a 20% chance of giving the Hunger effect for 5 seconds.

Seaweed naturally generated in Seaweed Patches, which are found in Ocean biomes. Seaweed grows like sugarcane, growing vertically, but will grow until there is only 1 block of water above it, giving it the ability to grow to 1 block below heightlimit (if water is at heightlimit). Seaweed only grows on gravel, stone, cobblestone, and mossy cobblestone (and itself), and ONLY in Ocean biomes. Seaweed takes a small amount of time to harvest, but is not instantaneous. Once harvested, seaweed can be replanted. Seaweed can also be cooked in a furnace. Seaweed will be cooked into Crispy Seaweed, which gives 3 hunger (or 1 and 1/2 ?chicken nuggets?) and 0.4 saturation.

AlgaeCraft is one of many that adds naturally generating sponges. In this mod, sponges generate at the bottom of oceans and in Coral Reefs. Sponges can be harvested and crafted into 2 Dry Sponges, which act as buckets. Use a Dry Sponge on water to retrieve a Wet Sponge, and use that on a block to place water and get a Dry Sponge. The Dry Sponge can also be crafted into 2 Sponge Spores. Using these, you can place down small sponge plants underwater. These can only grow on dirt, sand, cobblestone, and mossy cobblestone, with at least one block of water above it, and ONLY in Ocean Biomes. Sponges grow in 3 phases: small, medium, and large. After the large phase, it becomes a Sponge block provided by vanilla Minecraft. Sponges grow faster in higher light levels, but there is no set time, because the growth process is random (but more likely to progress in higher light levels). A sponge can be grown to the next phase using bonemeal

Coral is naturally generated in Coral Reefs, which are found in ocean biomes. There are 4 types of coral: Orange, Blue, Purple, and Brain. Each Coral also has a small version. Coral can be harvested and replanted.Coral can only be planted on dirt, sand, cobblestone, and mossy cobblestone, with at least one block of water above it, and ONLY in Ocean biomes. Normal sized coral can be crafted into 2 small versions of that coral (a feature that will be used in Coral farming). A small coral can be placed or crafted into a dye. Orange to orange dye, blue to lightblue dye, purple to purple dye, and brain to pink dye. Coral give off a level 4 light level for effect.

Water filters allow the players to plant any aquatic plant outside of their native biome, assuming all other conditions are met (blocks below and above). There are 4 types of filters: Ocean, Sporous, Fresh and Ender. Ocean filters allow for sponges, seaweed and coral to be planted in other biomes. Sporous filters allow for algae to grow in any biome. Fresh filters are currently a placeholder; they nullify an area so no aquatic plant can be grown in the area, but will eventually be used to grow freshwater plants in any biome. Ender filters act as a combination of all 3 filters, so any aquatic plant can be grown in an area.
The range of any filter is a 9x9x9 space with the filter in the center (4 blocks from the filter).

Filters are crafted with iron pressure plates, iron bars, Red-Iron Chips, a piston and a bucket of water.
Red-Iron chips are used only for crafting and are crafted with iron, redstone and nether quartz.

Ocean Filter
Sporous Filter
Fresh Filter
Ender Filter
Red-Iron Chip
Power of the Sporous filter
Power of the Ocean filter
Power of the Ender filter

AlgaeCraft will generate a new type of squid that naturally drops Raw Squid Meat instead of vanilla squid, but does Not replace vanilla squid that exist in a pre-existing world. To receive meat from vanilla squid, craft a Knife with a stick and an iron ingot. The knife will act like a stone sword on most mobs, but will insta-kill vanilla squid and drop raw squid. Raw squid can be cooked in a furnace to receive a Calamari Steak, which acts like cooked chicken. Fried Calamari Rings can be crafted using a knife, bowl, calamari steak and a brown mushroom. The knife WILL be returned, but will take damage. Fried calamari rings act like steak, but can not be fed to dogs for health reasons?.
As of AlgaeCraftt 1.3.0, there is a gold variation of the Cutting Knife.

Lobsters are simple mobs that fit within one block horizontally and one half-block high. They act similarly to (vanilla) silverfish, but stay on the bottom of water rather than swimming and take ?drowning? damage after spending too much time outside of water. If killed, they will drop 1-2 raw lobster meat. The meat can be cooked in a furnace to produce cooked lobster meat. Using a Lobster Cage, you can get Lobster items. You can cook the lobster in a furnace, or cut it with a knife in crafting to get 3 raw lobster. The whole cooked lobster (?boiled lobster?) can be cut with a knife to get 3 cooked lobster meat. You can also right-click with the lobster item to spawn in a lobster. Warning: Lobsters are Aggressive, and will deal 1/2 heart of damage. Changing to peaceful does not despawn lobsters.

Lobster cages can be crafted with 4 planks and 4 iron bars. If a lobster is within one block of the cage, it will usually enter the cage through some mysterious process. If the cage is broken, the lobster will be released. To collect the lobster from the cage, right click the cage with string. You will be given a Lobster (Item) and the string will be removed.

In future versions, a boiling pot will be required to cook any form of lobster.

The Deep Ocean biome generates same as any other biome, but it acts as an extra ocean. It goes down as deep as Level 32 or 33. The floor of the Deep ocean is made of Pelagic Sediment and clay. When dug up, the sediment will drop dirt, sand, clay or gravel with a small chance of loot, like gold or arrows. Pelagic Sediment can be silk harvested. Found spawning on the sediment in deep oceans is the rare Aeros Plantae, loosely translated to Air Plant. Disclaimer: this plant doesn’t exist in real life, and the name is just something I threw together. It’s just a Minecraft fantasy feature.

The Deep Ocean biome generates same as any other biome, but it acts as an extra ocean. It goes down as deep as Level 32 or 33. The floor of the Deep ocean is made of Pelagic Sediment and clay. When dug up, the sediment will drop dirt, sand, clay or gravel with a small chance of loot, like gold or arrows. Pelagic Sediment can be silk harvested. Found spawning on the sediment in deep oceans is the rare Aeros Plantae, loosely translated to Air Plant. Disclaimer: this plant doesn’t exist in real life, and the name is just something I threw together. It’s just a Minecraft fantasy feature.

Pelagic Sediment is fount on the bottom of the Deep Ocean. When broken, it will drop sand, gravel, dirt or clay with a small chance of loot. The chance is affected by the fortune enchantment. Here’s a list of possible loot with weighted chance:

The Aeros Plantae is a special kind of sea grass only found on pelagic sediment in deep ocean biome. Though it doesn’t actually exist in real life, it had several technical uses in Minecraft. The plant has 3 stages of growth: seedling, grass and mature. If harvested in the first stage, it will drop 1 Aeros Plantae Seeds item. It will drop 2 seed items in the second stage. If you are quick to harvest in the third stage, you will receive an Aeros Bulb item and a grass stage will remain. If you click for too long, you will receive the bulb and the 2 seed items.
When a player right-clicks with an Aeros Bulb underwater, it will restore up to 2 bubbles of breath (less if less than 2 bubbles are missing). The bulb can also be used to create potions of water breathing. Cut a bulb into an awkward potion with a knife and a Potion of Water Breathing will be crafted. A water breathing potion will give the player full air for 20 seconds. If you mix in gunpowder in crafting, it will become a splash potion, but the duration will be cut to 10 seconds. If redstone is mixed into a normal water breathing potion in crafting, the duration will increase to 40 seconds.

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Installation:

Don’t forget to delete the META-INF folder!Forge ModLoader (1.4 unofficial versions)Please note: If updating, update the Config file before using new features to avoid ID conflicts between versions.
1. Download and install Forge ModLoader.
2. Download AlgaeCraft for the correct version of Minecraft and Forge. (File name should end with _Forge.)
3. Put the downloaded .zip in the Mods folder created by Forge.
4. Cut the Fog Clarity API zip and paste in the same folder as the AlgaeCraft zip.
5. For Clients (optional): You only have to do this part once unless specified by download. API not compatible with Optifine. Install Optifine OVER this API to prevent issues. This will, however, neutralize all affects of this API (such as the SCUBA goggles improving water vision).
a. open Fog Clarity API zip and copy/cut the lone class file with a 2 or 3 letter name. (may change between versions of Minecraft)
b. Paste the class in the minecraft.jar, replacing the existing file. Delete META-INF!
c. Run Minecraft launcher and select appropriate Forge profile.
d. Go to Edit Profile and check ?JVM Arguments? near the bottom of the screen.
e. Add ? -Dfml.ignoreInvalidMinecraftCertificates=true -Dfml.ignorePatchDiscrepancies=true? (without quotes) after the pre-set argument.
6. ???
7. Enjoy!

Forge ModLoader (above 1.2.0 and below 1.4 versions)Please note: If updating, update the Config file before using new features to avoid ID conflicts between versions.
1. Download and install Forge ModLoader.
2. Download AlgaeCraft for the correct version of Minecraft and Forge. (File name should end with _Forge.)
3. Put the downloaded .zip in the Mods folder created by Forge.
4. ???
5. Enjoy!

1.4.x.0 Unofficial Forge ? This unofficial release fixes several bugs from 1.3 versions and contains new features for testing, which can be found only in the creative inventory.
– Fixed block damage problem with bonemeal.
– Fixed Algae growing on land and replacing blocks.
– Probably other bug fixes I can’t currently recall.
– Config variable ?algaeBiomeIDList? for changing biomes algae can grow in (for use with other biome mods).
– Config variable ?allowCoralGrowthOn? not working, but hints at future customizations.
– SCUBA Goggles, air tank and BCD up for testing. Key bindings don’t yet work on servers. No crafting yet.
– SCUBA Goggles require FogClarityAPI to work (see install instructions).
– Added limestone, only found in creative so far.
– New texture artist: NethanielShade.

1.3.0(2) Forge ? (for MC 1.5.2) Server bug fix. This fix will be added for 1.6.2 when basic SCUBA gear is added, which is planned to be relatively soon.

1.1.2 ? If 1.1.1 made minecraft crash, this version should have it fixed

1.1.1 ? Fixed not getting bowl back when eating Fried Calamari Rings

1.1.0 ? Update to MC 1.4.6:
-Fixed floating coral
-Small coral grow into big coral given time or bonemeal.
-New worlds generate ?AlgaeCraft Squid?, which drop raw squid, instead of normal Squid. AlgaeCraft Squid have their own spawn egg.
-You can craft ?Cutting Knives? with a stick and an iron ingot up-right diagonal to it. The knives act like stone swords.
-Knives allow the player to get meat from vanilla squid found in worlds already generated.
-You can cook raw squid in a furnace to recieve ?Calimari Steak?
-Craft a knife, brown mushroom, bowl, and calamari steak in any order to get ?Fried Calamari Rings?. You WILL get your knife back, but it will take damage.